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The first goal of this book is to provide the power user and database professional with SQL solutions to problems they face in the business working environment. To achieve this, the author uses his experience from the myriad of projects he participated in the last twenty years. He also follows user newsgroups where multiple business problems are posted. It is a pragmatic book that will show you how to calculate discounted sales volumes depending on revenue volumes, how to calculate employee commissions based on their sales, how to update multiple product prices from multiple suppliers conditionally, or how to find products with prices above the average product price.
This book will not waste your time by repeating "in a beautified form" what is in the help file for administration and reference: it is intended to help you with your time, not waste it. The second goal of this book is to help people who want to learn SQL from the ground up. For this reason the author included in the beginning of each chapter simple but not simplistic theory so that the novice can be gradually introduced to the concepts of practical SQL and become an expert. If you need to teach SQL Server T-SQL in a class environment, you might want to consider the book "SQL Server T-SQL Comprehensive: version 2012" from the same author.
CHAPTER 1 SQL FOUNDATION FOR BUSINESS
CHAPTER 2 CREATE, EDIT, AND DELETE TABLES USING SQL
CHAPTER 3 CREATE, EDIT, AND DELETE INDEXES USING SQL
CHAPTER 4 CREATE, EDIT, DELETE RELATIONSHIPS USING SQL
CHAPTER 5 THE SELECT STATEMENT
CHAPTER 6 THE OR AND AND OPERATORS
CHAPTER 7 SORTING RECORDS: THE ORDER BY CLAUSE
CHAPTER 8 WORKING WITH WILDCARD CHARACTERS
CHAPTER 9 THE LIKE OPERATOR
CHAPTER 10 EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY PREDICATES
CHAPTER 11 THE BETWEEN OPERATOR
CHAPTER 12 THE IN OPERATOR
CHAPTER 13 THE DISTINCT PREDICATE
CHAPTER 14 THE TOP PREDICATE
CHAPTER 15 CALCULATED FIELDS
CHAPTER 16 CONCATENATED FIELDS
CHAPTER 17 THE GROUP BY CLAUSE
CHAPTER 18 AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS
CHAPTER 19 CROSSTABING IN SQL SERVER 2012
CHAPTER 20 CONDITIONAL DATA MANIPULATION
CHAPTER 21 UNION OPERATIONS
CHAPTER 22 DUPLICATE, ORPHANED, and UNRELATED RECORDS
CHAPTER 23 WORKING WITH NULLS
CHAPTER 24 TYPE CONVERSION FUNCTIONS
CHAPTER 25 WORKING WITH STRINGS
CHAPTER 26 WORKING WITH DATES
CHAPTER 27 UPDATE SQL STATEMENTS
CHAPTER 28 DELETE STATEMENTS
CHAPTER 29 WORKING WITH JOINS
CHAPTER 30 WORKING WITH SUB-QUERIES
CHAPTER 31 STORED PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 32 TRIGGERS